Thursday, 24 September 2009

To reguarly go snowboarding, swimming & ice skating, and learn to be good.

To learn a martial art, and learn to be confident.

To play music as a language, and not as bunch of notes strung together.

To get into the habit of reading for 30mins before they sleep.

To write at least one line about their day before they sleep.

To learn that being creatively pro-active is a much more effective method of getting their way than whinging.

To spend every Christmas/New Years with all the siblings and cousins, all two hundred of them.

To know that I will never use the phrase, or any variation of; "Do as I say, because I told you so."

To know that I'm also not above saying, "...and that is Why. So, if you don't start doing as you're told, I'm gonna break out the 雞毛掃!"

---- 1, 2 and 3 are obviously the opportunities I wish I had had when I was a kid (Not blaming my own parents for that fact - as times and priorities were different back then - and I know that if my Dad had moved to another country and taught 2-12yr olds for the past 4yrs... =)- 4 just means that I gotta find a much wiser and better piano teacher than the one I had when I was 10, like the clarinet teacher I had when I was 16... a few months before I graduated out of that school (=.=)- 5 and 6 is something that I used to do, but started too late in life for it to really bed in and become automatos.- 7 is something that I know now, and I've seen in some of the smartest kids in my classes. So I know they're capable of it, consciously or otherwise, they're capable.- 8 is from my father, and some of my best childhood memories.- 9 is from my mother, and her obliviousness to its utter ineffectivity even to a 10yr old.- 10 is also from my mother, and her awesome awareness of its utter effectivity especially to a 10yr old.